Every day I reflect on my life's journey. I believe that's the whole reason God put us on this crazy planet in the first place - to learn lessons that will draw us closer to Him in this life and the next. Maybe I'm crazy but then again maybe I'm the most insightful person alive. Either way, that's how I live each day.
So many life lessons revolve around love, faith, acceptance, sacrifice and forgiveness; all things that we learn mostly in small doses, however, I believe they are all a part of an overarching lesson that we are meant to learn in this life. While each of our lessons are similar, they are all achieved at different times and in a myriad of ways. It's really about taking the time to reflect each day and to be open and honest about the lessons that are all around us on our journey. If we're honest with ourselves, this life is a spiritual journey seen and experienced with human eyes and emotion. It's a journey that I believe one day will be reviewed and evaluated on how our actions affected others. We will then understand fully how our life lessons related to our purpose in this life.
Let me give you a glimpse inside my Kirbyoblongata... Tonight's reflection included the phrase "forever friend". I saw it on a social media post and I began reflecting on friends, more specifically, my friends. Based on my belief that nothing happens by chance, I believe that all of my friends were divinely ordained and that we were brought together to learn from one another. In a sense, all of my friends are forever friends. They have all been a part of my journey and I have been a part of theirs. Through these friendships I've learned about life and I've experienced love, rejection, acceptance, forgiveness and so much more. These lessons can never be unlearned. They are forever.
Now in my sixth decade of life, I appreciate my friends more than ever. What blows my mind is that God knew even before He created the world that I was going to be born and that I would have these forever friends in my life. While some come into our life for only a short while and then are gone, their significance is not diminished by time or space. Their impact on our life and the lessons to be learned are there if we take the time to reflect on their significance in our journey.
All of that being said, through my journey, I've learned to accept the good with the bad. There is much to be learned in sickness, death, rejection and fear. While hard to endure, we sometimes learn the greatest lessons through adversity. It's all about taking the time to reflect on those experiences and accepting that hardship and affliction are part of the journey. I don't know, maybe it just helps me make sense of why bad things happen to good people sometimes. Nonetheless, you take the good, you take the bad, you take them both and there you have the facts of life, the facts of life...
Be Well.
Bill
